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Fun Word Friday!

Posted by Emma on May 21, 2010 at 8:57 am. Fun Word Friday

Welcome to Fun Word Friday!

Here are some of our favorite words from this week:

Profligate: Completely given up to dissipation and licentiousness, wildly extravagant. “Those people are essentially the victims of the really profligate use of fossil fuels by the industrialized North.”

Muntjac: A small deer of southeastern Asia and England

Tmesis: To break one word with another. For example: disbloomin’-graceful, un-flippin’-believable.

Kapok: A mass of silky fibers that invest the seeds of the ceiba tree and are used especially as a filling for mattresses, life preservers, and sleeping bags and as insulation.

Bargello: A needlework stitch that produces a zigzag pattern.

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